Christine Lahti has been working in film, TV and theatre for over four decades after her initial breakthrough role in … And Justice for All opposite Al Pacino. Five years later, she would receive her first Academy Award nomination and the N.Y. Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Swing Shift. She would then win an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for her movie, Lieberman in Love, in which she starred and directed. She also directed My First Mister, starring Albert Brooks, which opened the Sundance Film Festival. She has won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Actress on Chicago Hope, and a second Golden Globe for Crazy from the Heart. She has been seen in the hit TV shows, The Blacklist, The Good Fight and Law and Order: SVU. Other film credits include Running on Empty (LA Film Critics Award, Golden Globe Nom.), Housekeeping, and Just Between Friends. She has also had an extensive stage career, starting with her 1980 Broadway debut in Loose Ends. She played Gloria Steinem in the hit off-Broadway play, Gloria: A Life, which also aired on PBS “Great Performances” and was recently in the Jon Robin Baitz play, I’ll Be Seein’ Ya, for The Music Center in LA. Other Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Fucking A, The Heidi Chronicles, God of Carnage, Three Hotels (Drama Desk Nom.), Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling (Drama League Nom.), The Woods (Theatre World Award), and Little Murders (Obie Award). Christine can most recently be seen starring in the CBS show, Evil, created by Michelle and Robert King–which earned her a Critics’ Choice Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress and in a recurring part in Fire Country on CBS. Her recent stage credits are Russian Troll Farm at the Vineyard Theatre in NYC, and The Smile of Her written and performed by her at The Berkshire Theatre in July 2023. Bird in Hand, her latest feature film, directed by Melody C. Roscher, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2025. Most recently, Christine made her London stage debut both as a playwright and an actress in the play The Smile of Her at The Marylebone theater this past summer.
